Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 142, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 12, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 20 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
m
An
A TOMORROW
►OP**-. Leila RarueX,
par, Kddla Row haw
•»< *«a McOmiM
Principal-
trtm» Mat rr)
to $300, practicing 60
ririch «u ropn ssoted
Indabt^ftoM The p*
tent in llic common i
18 w»» $18. By 1949.1
•>ed to $142, of which
cent «n covered hg
K thli periqd, t#ie total
•d in school building*
increased from $la$J$0
The amount invesiad
increased frees
"dependent.school*.., I»
rt’-lffr/pupU,
i'U
•Us enrobed '
•>epaoalteg
ifiod es common —$pil
the remaining $409
enrolled in four ladei
U. .Fifty per cent <4
In enrollment In the
Is has been dRrtaw the
». or since 1M4. This
to consolldetiene and
e the total IsMWdl
y has remaned alajt
V
r Of___-w-w—
i schools dam-eased from
'» the year. frpm VWIi
•»£ bv**
he average
cent. The avorag^&rt-
•f the teachers in the
Is increased
number of
ent schools
108. The
I. >
V
/
to $11$$.
Jaa: m f
*tey. Texas.
PABHIONBD
on thtak la the
r
Obd Firmer Beaten*,
«han wa tslbsd atm*
grains on «» acres. toe
•a
•tr.
>n<l
*r
Jems'
vsasr -
Graham Daily Reporter
__They All Read It—Therefore A First Class Advertising Median
VQLOMB T.
Observance Of National Defense
Week Festered Here By D.A.R.
Aid Britain Now
Or Enter Conflict
GRAHAM. Wm WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY It, 1S41
Many Graham people have entered
enthusiastically Into observance of
National Defense Week, February 11
to 22, inclusive.
Many flags were on display in
front of business establishments and
homes today.
During this period , are the birth-
day anniversaries of Abraham Lin-
coln and Washington.
Mrs. S. A. Penix, of Graham, vice
chairman of the State D.A.R. com-
mittee on national defense, and re-
gent of the Silas Morton Chapter of
the D.A.R. in Graham has issued a
request for everybody here to ob-
serve National Defense Week by
displaying the American flag each
wise show recognition
defense week observance.
Lions Hear Talk
On “Morale Of
Democracy”
H I. Trout, publisher of the Gra-
ham Leader and Daily Reporter,
spoke to the Graham Lions Ctdb at
its regular weekly meeting at noon
Later Says Willkie
WASHINGTON, (Feb. 12 —Wendell
L. Wilkie, back from a trip to Eng-
land, said at the Senate hearing on
aid-to-Britain Tuesday that a policy
of full aid to Britain wUI give the
American people their only chance to
defend liberty without going to war
themselves.
The 1M0 Republican presdiential
nominee urged passage of the lease-
Mercy Ship Loads Up /or France and Spain
day that weather permits and other- m™,nee urR™ p“***e “ lne,
said:
“If Britain - were -to collapse, we
would be in war a month afterward.
That’s my guess.1'
"One month?” ejaculated Senator
Hobart R. Reynolds (Dem.) of North
Carolina, member of the Senate for-
eign relations committee.
"Well, a month or sixty days.”
One of the graatact aids that the
United State* could give, he declared,,
would he to send Britain five or tea^
destroyers a month to protect mer-
chant shipping carrying supplies to
today on the subject of “The Morale, Jwleaguered island. Flatly ad-
of Democracy.” j vocating such a step, he said Britain
Defining “morale” as < the unified needs destroyers desperately,
spirit and sentiment of the nation, | ••jj0 trlan nn guarantee to you that
Trout diseuaaed ways in which each ' the policy of aid to Britain will not
citisen and group can strengthen | jnT0lve the United States in war,”
morale of the nation. Activities of he said, but he solemnly added that
the Lions Club and other civic^organi-, Hitler is far less apt to be aggreeelve
“ ^ *■ v,“' toward the Western Hemisphere
while England stands.
the Red Cress atop, “OeU
I toes, takes su
DsW amber,” chartered (rent the United States
at PatoWnn. Md., tar Spain and unoccupied
la Cadfr, Spain. This win be the drat relief
■totes. width havi
under arraiagrm
have requested aid. The ship will pass
lent with the British.
“I Came; I Saw; I Conquered”
{Shortest Speech In History
Applied To Modem Education
rations, accomplished through public
aasembUes prohibited in un-democrat-
ic nations, are strong factors in up-
holding the morale of the democracy,
he pointed out.
Trout called' special attention to
observance of- National Defeme
Weak, February _ IV {cgpotn’s hirtb-
One amendment he proposed would
Funds About
ya?LArS„S.SFor
______1 t0“2 a -rreen and explains it with a
(By O. V. KOEN1 ascirnce studentu and medical students
“I came; I saw; I conquered,” poe- spent many long back-breaking hours
aibiy the moat concise and most pouring over a miscroscope Now,
graphic speed) in history, credited they can relax in their chairs srhile
NUM1
Jeff Williams To Speak
At CC Banquet March 5
Independent Bakers
Of North Texas
Meet Here Tuesday
Independent bakers and allied
tradesmen, attended a monthly ban-
quet of the North Texas Bakers As-
sociation in the Legion Room of the
Memorial Auditorium here Tuesday
night for a program of entertain-
ment and discussion of mutual busi-
ness problems.
Harvey Woolley of the Good Eats
Bakery here was host at the meet-
ing, which was attended by thirty-
three. Towns represented included
Olney. Jackaboro, Wichita IFalls,
Graham, Eleetra, Vernon, Childreaa,
Bowie, and Nocona.
All bakers brought samples of
cakea, which were examined for
weight and attractiveness of pack-
aging.
V. V. Vandeventer of Wichita F'alls
is president of the association. Dick
Hodge* of Electra acted as secretary.
The next monthly meeting will be in
Flectra.
Jeff> Williams, attorney of Chiek-
aaha, Oklahoma, and director of Ro-
tary, International, was engaged to-
day as the principal speaker for the
1941 annual banquet of the Graham
Chamber of Commerce. The date an-
nounced for the occasion, by E. R.
Marchman. president, is Wednesday
March 5.
'Mr. Wilfiams is the best speaker
obtainable.” stated S. B. Harbiaon.
chairman of the Speaker Committee.
“He ia not a stranger to Texas; he is
a native. He Well-known as an
rftcr dinner speaker in the South-
west. His subject is ‘The Long
Look.”
Williams is a director of Rotary
International and has traveled wide-
ly. He is a gifted speaker, with a
rare brand of humor, sound philoso-
phy, and practical ideas on present-
day problems, according to those
who have heard him.
Before Williafag was secured, then
committee contacted the Waco Cham- “
ber of Commerce where he appeared
at the annual meeting in that city.
L. A. Wilson, general manager ef
the Chamber of Commerce wrote:
“I am glad to answer your inquiry
of February 7 by telling you that
The entertainment proggan*, ar-! Williams was the best annual
ranged by the Chamber of Commerce, I banquet speaker we have ever had, hi
consisted of a violin solo, “Paradise,” | fact- the best I have ever heard. We
by Misa Frieda Schultz, accompa ! have had the highest of praise from
nied at the piano by her father, E everyone concerning him. I strongly
C. Schultz, a reading by Miss Coralie | urge you to get him if he can be se-
Scurlock, and tap dancing by tw«D cured. He has a very forceful, time
of Miss Scorlock’s popils.
Commonwealth of Nations, China and
Greece. Some other changes might
be made, he suggested, to eliminate
When we try to convince someone , pointer,
that we know what we are talking
iib. r i iiTn"iiiriit............ 'i a»rr _
I my own eyes.” - - fW ysm. and- studying th* auccea.*
morale of the nation. 1 chief
Foy Brantley was by acclamation j
neased Tail-twister to fill ont the
uarapind tom of C. D. Lean, who
has moved from Graham.
W. C- Drummond pronounced in-
vocation and Foy Brantley led sing-
ing Vice-president I. F. Roebuck
prestdsd in the absence of the presi-
executive.
Azle To Play
And, even though the eyes them-
sehree are fallible, the person ad-
dressed feels added confidence tn our
dent. Tn
Kennedy,
___U---T__LLt a*«T if we did see It first hand.
jUXlo IlClC lvYlTlt'! 11 7 That fact Ties at the basil of s new
_ • trend in education. It is described
The Axle basket bail team will come ** Visual Education, but likes® many
Trout was introduced by Claude, hero tonight tor a game with the teemto peiagigteil-terms it ia vague,
program chairman for the,Graham Steers
~*fLr
• general, and often misunderstood.
Actually, Visual Education is not a
Six Selectees Ai£
winners of the county round-robin in
Class B, will play Graham hem for ,applen’"’t®d
the county ehaapiouship.
__ lecturing with
mepe, charts, models, diagrams, and
Re movie camera is used primar-
by the stlitetk dspuitniini.though
not pecessarily so, in making pictures
and failure of plays. The price of
films naturally limits the use of this
machine yet, btt quite likely K will
find extended uses as the price of
raw film declines, sad as schools be-
H" nerves ring their own films.
At present, most of the films and
slides shown are passed from one
school to another—on a circuit, so to
speak. Colleges and universities have
rente] bureaus. By paying a basic
ran
use
ijitlAG
Kl H.float
i n» xitiii* eteh* th. ---- _:it photographs. Thera , is, however, a
2S* fv.-ramra % “*
anything in the college cata-
logue merely by paying transports
Free School Lunches
Mrs. W. N. Varble, in charge of
the cafeteria at the Graham schools, i
has announced that the fund to pro-
vide free lunches for undernourished
children at the grade schools is just
about all used up and appeals for
donations immediately.
Thera are about 150 undernourish-
ed children being fed wen balanced
noon lunches at the schools, Mrs.
ly, intereating, and highly entertain-
ing message, which should be hoard
by everybody in America, especially
Chamber of Commerce people.”
O. V. Koen and his entertainment
committee have already begun work
on securing musical number* for the
banquet.
Graham Is Well
Represented AtBig :
Banker's Meeting
Graham is well represented today
at the Banker* District meeting fat
Varble said, and to continue this1 Dallas.
other contribution* are needed at j Among those going from Graham
ouce. j were James G. Staples, Blake AIB-
One anonymous donor has told1 son, J. P. Gamrail, O. P. Umphrey.
I$n 4^iMn, Varble. she raid today, that he| of the (First National Bank: C. F.
I! ).
harp Wudwfpitaflr, afternoon ito Da£
jOTfc.-:
iy of
K:>d*af,ad*tot|
tipn on the Aims or slides chosen. amounts.
im/r
>t|pn-r-and qufte', naturally so,
srheit we soqsider the increa*od avail'
ability of thipgs to see w^tji. iAcb as
_______- _____ _____ slide\ ygojactora. ^totoros<-op<- proieot-
laa for, todrietion fa die flrut Wbru- • • ” T . .. ^ 'era, and motion picture mschfrite. Of.
ary quota far selective service. Ten ! A demonstration of how to photo- the ,It* sensory orgtna of the
rrmt1 ‘ u; 2S.°5
this month. the Graham Camera Club Tueeday
The six include: Travis Cecil Lew- night at the Memorial Auditorium, schoolroom
••Ring of Graham; C. R. Blount, Jr., I Lights and backgrounds were set up
of Olney, Loyd Whltely of Newca«tlo, I and photographs taken of two dogs.
William Prod Atwood of Gra.tam,, At the next meeting on February
will
will
give $100 to the cause
get four others who will
)T strrforaguryr
ill give | Mr. pad
JL-V-
Mrs. D A.
Atchison, Mrs. H. r6.
Mrs. Florence Lundy.
been the primary organ used in the
——..™m. Even Mark Hopkins,
that celebrated teacher who sat on
one end of a log and taught a boy on
the other end, mast have done moat
Ford, Frank
or slide* chosen. nuniKin, an. n. u. Criswell Hid
cured Iro'm comnwrelarhodses which, Fkt'StOfk ShoW Group
ipS 2?r * Jye, TWjdsv iwiu
picture: It Ts fsh- to-My for thesJ^fp-fe^10". tt will
commercial films that they rare us-Y*™** - ---- -.-.tot- — Tv.,, ,£.-------
at 9:20 o’clock to advertise the Fat was killed in ah automdbile accident
Stock Show in Fort Worth. , at Mount Vernon. Duttons, Monday,
obnoxious. The group will come directly from friends here have learned. Among
Let us take some specific examples Bryson and Jack*boro Charles Cot- -urvivors are a brother. Otis Mason,
and make more definite analysis of.ton wHI w in charge of the delega- I and a sister. Miss Agnes McKafrey,
tion. composed of Junior Chamber of both of Wichita Falls, and two sta-
Commerre members. ters and an aunt in Newcastle.
ually of superior quality and their
DAUGRtfat.OP NEWCAJTO.F.
•LE DtPIS IN ACCIDENT
Lloyd Fuller, daughter of Mr.
TllunMrarfSJirning , and Mrt. John Mason Of Newcastle.
Martin Owen Davis of Mow castle, and
Charles Duncan Choate of Graham
Mrs. Paul Moreland and Mrs.
Mollie Moreland are reported to be
in.
25, pictures of pets will be due for
the monthly contest.
Miss Clematis Taylor of Bbtelene
*p«nt the week - end here with her
parents.
Patronage From Other Counties
Comes To Food Storage Plant Here
Graham’* food cold storage locker
plant, owned by Sam Criswell and
operated at the Graham lea plant,
is becoming to popular in its service
that It now often brings residents
of other town* and counties to Gra-
ham where many have secured cold
storage lockers In which to keep
fresh meats, fruit* sad vegetables.
Patrons of the plane who have, lock
Throckmorton. Bryson. Newcastle,
Caddo and many all
BARRINGTON RETURNS TO
RECRUITING OFFICE HERE
this Visual Education program. Let
u* begin with elides on the primary
of his excellent teaching by “telling” 1,TeI' Thi* Fe,r wp "howed * 8et
of slide* called, “Mother Goose
Health Set ” With each set of slides
is a booklet of instructive material
to be administered through the ear
ns the child studies the slide which
rather than by “showing.” But even
Mark Hopkins might have done bet-
ter tf ha had had some pictures and
ipedela to show.
Twenty-Eight Questions To Be Asked
In Legion Voluntary Defense Registration
Mach Equipment Available To All projected on a screen. With this
8o schools today have launched particular set, there were pictures
teeth with a new emphasis on things 0f Mother Gooee scenes, and as the
-to aee. The Graham Public Schools, child looked at the scene a teacher
h«ve among their equipment on eye- read the corresponding rhyme, clev-
testing machine, a microscope projee- erly paraphrased to teach a lesson in
tor. a slide projector, material to health. The following illustrates the
make slides, a movie camera, two point very well: | Grahpm announced bare today.
and two movie projection Thera was an old woman who lived *ifatk>n will
A total of 28 questions will be ssk-9 Bombs that rain down from the sky
ed of all World War veterans regia-j^have no preference in objectives They
tered February 22 bv The American , destroy anything that come* in their
Legion for possible national defense way. That hat made every cittern,
service. Commander F. V. Hinson of i young or old, a combatant today,
the Ligon-Dmniel Post No. 34 of “In view of these facts The Amer-
ican Legion has not included the age
All of this equipment ia
to every child in every
in a shoe,
machines
Sergeant Charles J. Barrington.
who has been assisting in induction
23S5 £££*§
be asked, however. Commander Hin-
She had so many child-vn she knew “»• »»«• That qu~tion. strange to
Just what to do. “2. is that of the registrant’s sget
Tha eye-testing machine is in soate she gave them pure milk with plenty
of bread
-- . f**ln tw„i ***• «yv» of poor readers to sss if there them in bed.®
«• *"*2 Recruiting Station Wr be some phyr cal defect, re -m,*, dreamed .weet
Hsaslsy, in charts here the a Hen Mon of an sve roe- ^ 7 rwnr round:
for several weeks, baa been called to pkkHat. On arts nf cards are dots. They needed
d rente*
They
liner, stars, eolors, etc., which when M *ound
■Stood correctly give a tot of informa- On the upper primary level and the
The American Legion does not
want to know how old its member*
er other World War veterans are,
who register, because there is no lon-
ger any restriction of age in a eiti-
xer’s sharing in national
Thereby hangs a grim story
question in its national
questionnaire. There qiil be no age
restriction in any possible anticipated
home service in defense of the na-
tion Every good etttaeo, young to
old, must do his share In nations 1
defense. That ir the new odder to
national emergencies today!"
Commander Hinson pointed on*
defense.; that men and woman skilled; in Mm
trades now am ia demand in national
“Total war hat virtually eliminated defense industries irrespective of age
the factor of age in national defense!'' “Faetartoa and
Commander Hinson sxgtoinsil “In to be hiring trained man today to
the oM days the young and strong some cans* who are peat TO years
want faith to battle. Those days and oven older,” Commander Htenon
Warm today ns said. “This to especially tree to MO-
^ - V, ,M*m***J
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 142, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 12, 1941, newspaper, February 12, 1941; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1064982/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.